A lawyer for the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street', Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, and her husband Ilya '' Lichtenstein, 34, claim neither of them are 'flight risks' because Morgan has frozen embryos in the city.The couple's lawyer, Samson Enzer, has urged a judge to allow them to be freed on $3million and $4.5million...
Australian man accused of running world's biggest 'dark web' market
An Australian man is accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace which has been called the biggest in the world and ' for criminals'. A joint investigation by Australian Federal Police, Scotland Yard, the , Europol, and German authorities, among others, led to the arrest of the man, 34, as...
Crypto crime hit record $14 billion in 2021, research shows
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14 billion last year, darknet magazine blockchain researcher Chainalysis said on Thursday, a record that comes as regulators call for darknet market more powers over the fast-growing sector. Crypto received by digital wallet addresses...
U.S. imposes sanctions on Russian darknet market and crypto exchange
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) - The U.S.Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a Russia-based darknet market site and dark web darknet market list a cryptocurrency exchange that it said operates primarily out of Moscow and darkmarket list St. Petersburg. The sanctions against Russia-Based Hydra and darknet market links currency...
Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…
By Tom Wilson LONDON, dark web market list darknet market onion Feb 11 (Reuters) - Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected...
Gab, the social network used by Pittsburgh shooting suspect, returns
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> , a fringe social network , resurfaced on Sunday. The social media site, which markets itself as a bastion of free speech amid censorship of extremists on Twitter and Facebook, darknet market sites was intermittently available late Sunday. Clicking on links to the site sometimes would produce...
The history of hacking ransoms and cryptocurrency
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> Earlier this month, hundreds of companies from the US to Sweden were entangled in the , a company that offers network infrastructure to businesses around the world.The Kaseya hack comes on the heels of other headline-grabbing cyberattacks like the and the . In each instance, criminals had the opportunity...
One of the biggest ever dark web police stings leads to 150 arrests
Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects in one of the largest-ever dark web sting operations.The suspects arrested included several high-profile targets, involved in buying or selling illegal goods online, Europol said today.Operation Dark HunTOR also recovered millions of pounds in cash and , as well as drugs and...
First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa has merchants and consumers looking for a new home. Authorities , the largest online marketplace for illegal goods, on July 4, and took down Hansa, the third largest, on Thursday. The sites, where people could buy...
Europol says illegal marketplace "DarkMarket" taken offline
THE HAGUE, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An online marketplace called "DarkMarket" that sold illegal drugs has been taken down in an operation led by German law enforcement agencies, European police agency Europol said on Tuesday. The darknet market had almost 500,000 users with 2,400 sellers, Europol said in a statement.Transactions...